What's the difference between chic and chich?

Chic


Definition:

  • (n.) Good form; style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
  • (2) "The rise of trainers and slip-ons, the Birkenstock … Certain designers are shifting our perception of chic," she says.
  • (3) At the Forum Rodgers and Chic will be part of a lineup that includes DJs past and present, from Studio 54 legend Nicky Siano to Chicago house star Derrick Carter.
  • (4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
  • (5) La Perla apparently thought its chic customers – who drop hundreds of dollars on high-status underthings – would relate to, or admire, such a vision.
  • (6) Squeaky-clean Leona Lewis has covered Trent Reznor's hara-kiri-themed treatise Hurt, Beyoncé pre-empted Ke$ha on last year's Rather Die Young, and the Lynchian pretend-we're-dead poise of Lana "Born To Die" Del Rey couldn't be more cadaver chic if she started shaking with rigor mortis, maggots spilling from her eyeballs.
  • (7) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
  • (8) The restaurant has an industrial chic feel, and a great atmosphere any day of the week.
  • (9) The hit single "Around the World" displayed a then-unfashionable love of disco which attracted the attention of Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
  • (10) Surroundings are chic but comfortable, children are welcome, staff are friendly, burgers are from traceable Scottish beef and start at £5.75, chips are thick and homemade, and they play old soul and r'n'b.
  • (11) It’s operated by a young, talented photographer called Bheki Dube and his influence is everywhere – the hostel decor is fantastic – think industrial-chic warehouse apartment with lots of quirky touches.
  • (12) Tobey Maguire fans – and there are many vocal and vehement ones – will insist that no one can replace the king of geek chic in the Spider suit, but they may come to accept that if anyone can, it's Garfield.
  • (13) Abo Rabieh is part of a renaissance of the Syrian art scene in recent years, with a steady stream of works appearing in chic galleries in Paris, London and Dubai.
  • (14) But while graffiti artists have benefited from the radical chic factor, the beau monde never hired street vendors to give them some rebellious cool.
  • (15) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (16) Six chic doubles, all but one with room for an extra bed, are tacked onto an old farmstead.
  • (17) It is not hard to imagine her, possibly wearing her stilettos, at the wheel of a heavy vehicle: chic but tough, she's a woman who bridges the divide between cosmopolitan and traditional Africa.
  • (18) The film could be said to mark the moment when the favela – previously a byword for criminality, sickness and moral depravity – started to become “chic”.
  • (19) So think twice before booking that flight (unless you're going for its other assets – its chilled-out beach towns , chic resorts , and unspoilt interior .
  • (20) A woman who sports Chanel dreams of being a chic Parisian demoiselle.

Chich


Definition:

  • (n.) The chick-pea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A simple incision was made in the early chich embryo (stages 3-5) are pellucida endoderm and its subsequent healing studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
  • (2) Serum addition to stationary chich embryo fibroblasts in vitro causes a 300% increase in acid mucopolysaccharide production, this increase being linear both with time and concentration of serum added.
  • (3) Chick embryo fibroblasts (CEF) and hamster BHK21 cells transformed by the Schmidt-Ruppin strain of Rous sarcoma virus (SR-RSV) release into the culture medium a factor or factors which enhance 2- to 7-fold the formation of transformed foci by chich embryo fibroblasts infected with the Bryan strain of RSV (B-RSV).
  • (4) Ways in chich deficiencies on the part of this system can be treated are critically discussed.
  • (5) Kneeling by the 15th-century tomb of Henry Chichely, Archbishop of Canterbury and chancellor to Henry V, which shows him as a prince of the church on the upper level and a worm-gnawed corpse below, Williams grimly translates the carved Latin motto: "Here is my tomb, look into your mirror."
  • (6) The orientation of the transport system appears to be reversed in certain other cell types: chich embryo fibroblasts, Novikoff hepatoma cells and HeLa cells.
  • (7) Sulindac thus appears to be a "latentiated" or "pro-drug," oral dosage with chich may circumvent the gastrointestinal side effects commonly associated with nonsteriod anti-inflammatory agents.
  • (8) The effects of various concentrations of fluoride on the mineralization of embryonic chich tibiae were studied in vitro.
  • (9) This report presents and reviews five cases in chich the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis was made after the age of six years.

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